Kirk Nelson
Tuts+ Design
Washington, DC, United States
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What Are Photoshop Actions and How to Install Photoshop Actions
What You'll Be CreatingWhat are Photoshop Actions? Why should you use them and how? This 60-second video will show you why Photoshop Actions should be an important part of your workflow.What are... → Read More
Photoshop in 60 Seconds: How to Present Your Designs Professionally
What You'll Be CreatingTake just a minute and learn how to use product mock-ups to present your designs with professionalism and sophistication.Product Mock-UpsWhat's the best way to display your... → Read More
10 Tips for Improving Your Photo Manipulation Skills
Over it's 20+ year history, Photoshop has proved itself useful for a great many things. One of the primary applications is photo manipulation. In fact, it's photo manipulation that is meant by the... → Read More
How to Create an Easy Rippled Reflection in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingOne way to create even more drama in an interesting landscape is by adding a digital flood! Not only does it create an aesthetically pleasing symmetry, but it uses one of the... → Read More
Photoshop in 60 Seconds: How to Create a Portrait Quote
What You'll Be CreatingIn this quick 60-second video, you'll learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to combine a portrait image and typography into an attractive portrait quote.How to Create a Portrait... → Read More
50 Awesome Festive Photoshop Christmas Add-Ons
With Christmas just a few weeks away, chances are good that most designers will need to use some sort of Christmas-based graphics for their work or play this season. It's also likely that your time... → Read More
Photoshop in 60 Seconds: How to Create an Inspirational Poster
What You'll Be CreatingInspiration. It's a curious thing that certain collections of words used on a particular type of image can motivate us. While it is debatable as to whether or not the... → Read More
Photoshop in 60 Seconds: How to Create a Splash Dress
What You'll Be CreatingTake just a minute to learn how to use isolated objects to create an energetic splash dress in Photoshop.How to Create a Splash Dress Effect With Isolated ObjectsOne of the... → Read More
How to Create a Fireball Brush From Scratch in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingCrafting home-made fire effects is a fun way to add visual energy and excitement to your digital artwork. I'll show you how to safely create, capture, and use custom-made... → Read More
30+ Premium Adobe Photoshop Brushes and Tutorials
What You'll Be CreatingPhotoshop comes with a large and varied set of different brushes and brush tips, but one of the most useful features of the tool is the ability to use custom brushes. Custom... → Read More
The Designer's Guide to Outsourcing Using Envato Studio & Envato Market
If you are a designer and considering taking the plunge to make your way as a freelancer, good for you! You are probably swimming in an ocean of design-related tasks that need to be done to get... → Read More
How to Create a Multi-Image Twitter Header Image With Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingSocial media continues to be a valuable outlet for any artist to display their work and connect with their audience, as well as potential clients. I had found my own Twitter... → Read More
How to Create a Ghosted Dancer Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingAs we continue our series on effects inspired by music videos, one of the effects I find entrancingly beautiful is the ghosted figure effect. → Read More
Essential Resources for Photo Manipulation Artists
What You'll Be CreatingAdobe Photoshop is the premiere photo manipulation tool of our time—few people would dispute that. But do you need more to finely hone that cr → Read More
How to Create a Kaleidoscope Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingAs we continue with our series on effects inspired by music videos, one of the effects I've always been fascinated with was the kaleidoscope e → Read More
How to Create a Trippy Head Tunnel Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingAs we continue with our series of effects inspired by music videos, Zayn's Pillow Talk video continues to provide inspiration for fun and crea → Read More
How to Use the Pen Tool and Paths in Adobe Photoshop
In this Coffee Break Course, Envato Tuts+ Instructor Kirk Nelson will help you tackle the fundamentals of using the Pen Tool and Paths in Adobe Photoshop in the amou → Read More
How to Create a Strip Fractal Mirror Effect in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingMusic videos are an excellent source of creative visual effects. The video for Pillowtalk by Zayn Malik has a tremendous amount of inspiring v → Read More
X-Men Week
If you're a fan of the X-Men comics, movies, TV show and more... we have the content for you! We published a week of original X-Men content, just for you and maybe also because we're big fans too. → Read More
Colossus: How to Turn Skin to Metal in Adobe Photoshop
What You'll Be CreatingAs our X-Men week continues, we honor everybody's favorite Steel-Skinned Russian with a look at how to transform skin into metal in Photoshop. → Read More